Marco Joseph Patricio, 23, who is following the proceedings at Mold Crown Court with the aid of a Portuguese interpreter, denies rape and an alternative charge of indecent assault, and claims that sex took place with her consent.

It was clear from his police interview that Patricio, of Alwen, Plas Madoc, Acrefair, Wrexham, knew that thegirl was only 14, alleged prosecuting barrister John Hedgecoe.

Initially, he denied that there had been any contact, but Mr Hedgecoe said the defendant now agreed that sex had taken place and the issue for the jury would be one of consent.

It was alleged that the defendant went to a property on the Plas Madoc Estate in the early hours of the morning.

The girl was one of the people at the property and she agreed to go outside with him, then into a car being driven by another man, and they went to the car driver's home in the Ruabon area.

There, they sat on a sofa and after a while he asked her to go upstairs with him. She did but once upstairs he started to take her clothes off, it was alleged.

Mr Hedgecoe said that she tried to stop him and asked him to leave her alone but he continued and had sex with her.

She was asking to be left alone but he told her to be quiet and had sex, it was claimed.

He later took her back to the original property where the girl complained to her sister and the police were called.

Cross-examined by defending barrister Andrew Green, the girl denied that she had made the rape allegation up once she knew she had been found out having sex with the defendant, and then found it difficult to retract.